Don’t forget the old folks and stories galore

I’ve got some old friends George and Mary and their the best. I met them years ago and we, because of things we do like fishing and hunting have become pretty close and can ask each other for anything and we’ll try to help each other out whenever we need it, all we have to do is ask.

A friend of Georges brought over 4 squirrels that were cleaned and gave them to him and Mary and she cooked them for dinner yesterday and I wasn’t able to make it. So tonight after I got done helping Mary with here flower garden all day she gave me the rest of the cooked squirrels to take home for Cindi and I. In the food basket was a cream cheese cake with cherries, biskits and sausage gravy from this morning, Tomatoes, more mushrooms and a couple more tasty little morsels of delight.

George and Mary have so many stories to tell and their very enjoyable to listen too and to cut a joke with. Older folks get kinda lonely and they have things to do around the house that they can no longer do themselves because they just don’t have the strength to do them anymore. Something I’ve noticed is the more people who around them, probably older folks in general, it seems the more they smile and I know its visits from thier friends that makes life more enjoyable for them.

They have many stories to tell once they get to know you. George has caught so many fish and still is, hunted so many ducks, geese, pheasants, rabbits and trapped so many coons when prices were good back in the 70’s that its impressing to hear of the numbers and also to hear the many stories. George has so many fishing and hunting stories to tell that if he don’t hold the record he’s runner up.

A person should try to get to know atleast one or two older folks if they can because they have a bookful of stories to tell and another bookful of experiences to talk about, I know life’s a whole lot more enjoyable for me because I know a couple, I hope you know a couple too.

Very good post mossydan! I like yourself, try and find the best out of people. No matter who it is, there’s always something that I learn from everyone and especially the generation that is older than me. It’s nice to give back to the very same people who helped you along the way.

One time I was sitting next to a little old lady at a play and she overheard me talking about deer hunting. She ended up giving me a recipe on how to make venison jerky! I still have it today!

Good post mossydan Someday, we will all be there…. Brad, your suppose to keep quiet at a play….

Hey Glen Brad probably asked her if she wanted to set in the tree with him for another recipe.

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Brad, your suppose to keep quiet at a play….

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She’s the one couldn’t keep quiet… besides…. deer hunting trumps any stupid play.

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Hey Glen Brad probably asked her if she wanted to set in the tree with him for another recipe.

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She had already burned her tag and was giving me grief that I still had mine in my pocket.

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Hey Glen Brad probably asked her if she wanted to set in the tree with him for another recipe.

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I am sure he would have forced her to film for him too…..

Yup!

you guys knock it off we are supposed to nice to the older folks like brad geez didnt you read the post

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you guys knock it off we are supposed to nice to the older folks like brad geez didnt you read the post

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On a side note. There’s an older guy that work with me that is originally from down south. In Lousiana. He is 1 of 16 sibling in his family. And has some good stories about growing up as a kid down there picking cotton until he grew up and moved away. It’s always fun to hear from him. And man he can make so food.

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Hey Glen Brad probably asked her if she wanted to set in the tree with him for another recipe.

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I am sure he would have forced her to film for him too…..

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I asked her (couldn’t be any worse than my camera guys) … she also politely declined when I asked her if she would gut my deer.

OK…. this thread has officially fallen off the tracks.

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George and Mary would probably be laughing just as much as we are. They laugh at things like that and usually have a wise reply. George would probably say I’ll walk to the tree with you but I’ll be dam-ed if I’m going up it, you’ll have to do that. Mary would probably say what makes you think I’m going to do your work for you, you lazy blank blank blank, they always have something to say back, its pretty hard to outtalk an older person that’s got wit.

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George and Mary would probably be laughing just as much as we are. They laugh at things like that and usually have a wise reply. George would probably say I’ll walk to the tree with you but I’ll be dam-ed if I’m going up it, you’ll have to do that. Mary would probably say what makes you think I’m going to do your work for you, you lazy blank blank blank, they always have something to say back, its pretty hard to outtalk an older person that’s got wit.

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So true… Get them signed up on the site! They sound like the kind of people that I would want to hang out with!

Their really cool Brad. I doubt if I could get George to come to the site because he thinks computers will be the downfall of the human race lol, he’s pretty old school. Mary just plays scrabble and checks an occasional junk e-mail but I am going to send to the both of them what I get off my trailcam, they also want to know whats walking around in their woods and the whole area that they haven’t seen yet. George was telling me yesterday how they used to split big logs in Kentucky when he was a kid with his dad and uncles using dynamite. He said all you have to do is get the split started and instead of doing it the hard way they used a 1/4 to 1/2 stick of dynamite. He said they would drive a big wedge down in the log to make it open up enough to get the stick down in the log instead of just on the surface, push it down in, light it and run like hel-. He said they would always run away not from the sides of the log, he said you always wanted to run from the end that had the dynamite in it. He said after it split it was then small enough you could work with it. People don’t know what their missing not talking to older folks, what a gas!

I love stories like that… from the good old days!

Ya I know. Hes told me about his commercial fishing days on Kentucky lake. He and Mary used to own that business and had their shop right on the lake, the building floated right on the water. He told me about the thousands of hooks they use to use and it was a major expense just paying for bait because they used so many hooks. He said when bait got tight they would use hotdogs and bait each hook with a piece, imagine that, buying a case of hotdogs to bait your hooks. The teller at the store would ask, you going to have a big cookout, and you would say, no just going fishing.

He told me about his brother that also commercialed and he was known for the big bluecat that he used to catch. He bought some land and put in a pay to fish pond. In this pond he would put in these 50 lb. and bigger bluecat and people would pay to catch these. Whatever they caught they had to pay for it and couldn’t put it back, I guess he made alot of money just letting people fish his bluecat pond. Some of the stories he’s told me about were outrageous.